When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Monday, April 30, 2007

A picture in a Russian newspaper. Watch that man, he looks like a jerk but he could eat you with a fork and spoon.(if you know what/who this man is, please comment)1630 (-) Composer Ercole Porta dies at the age of 44 in Italy.1844 (x) 26-year-old Writer and pacifist Henry Thoreau accidently set a fire that burned over a hundred acres in Fair Haven Pond, Massachussets, USA.1870 (+) Composer Franz Lehar is born in Komorn, Austria.1883 (-) Artist Eduard Manet dies at the age of 51 in Paris, France.1912 (-) Murderer J. Morris is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Utah, USA.1930 (-) Charlotte Ulrich is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.She survived.1945 (-) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler commits suicide by poison and a shot through the head at the age of 56 in Berlin, FührerBunker, Germany.His 35-year-old lover Eva Braun follows him in death.1945 (x) The concentration camp of Ravensbruck is liberated by Russian Armed Forces in Germany.1946 (x) Serial Killer William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested for carrying a gun, but is released in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1966 (x) Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan in San Francisco, California, USA.1978 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, goes hungerstriking to secure medical treatment in Huntingdon State Correctional Institute, Pennsylvania, USA.1979 (-) Ellen Abel is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Schriesheim, Germany.1983 (-) Marie Malvar is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 18 in Seattle, Washington, USA.1984 (-) Musician Muddy Waters dies at the age of 69.1987 (x) Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, is paroled and released from Stormville Prison after serving 14 of a 25-year sentence for child-murder in New York, New York, USA.1999 (x) 17-year-old Mass Murderer Christopher Churchill is sentenced to life imprisonment in Olney, Illinois, USA.In February 1998 he killed his half-brother, Jonathan Lloyd, along with Lloyd's 35-year-old girlfriend and her three young children at their rural Richland County home, only using a hammer.2002 (-) Murderer Rodolpho Hernandez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

A makeshift meatstall in the backyard of an apartment block from a couple of guys who just slaughtered a pig.1863 (+) Millionaire William Randolph Hearst is born in the USA.1881 (-) Murderer Royal Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, USA.1899 (+) Musician Duke Ellington is born in the USA.1901 (+) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito is born in Japan.1907 (+) Musician Tino Rossi is born.1907 (+) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman is born in the USA.1917 (+) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, is born in Kiev, Ukraïne, USSR.1919 (-) Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper not to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.1922 (+) Musician Toots Thielemans is born in Brussels, Belgium.1943 (-) Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1945 (x) The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by American Armed Forces in Germany.1949 (-) Murderer Andrew Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.1951 (-) Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies at the age of 62 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.1967 (-) Coby Van Der Voort is beaten to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 37 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1970 (+) Actress Uma Thurman is born.1971 (-) Edna MacDonald is strangled by Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, in Barrington, USA.1977 (-) Marie-Therese Majer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 21 in Schriesheim, Germany.1980 (-) Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, dies at the age of 80 in London, United Kingdom.1980 (-) Darin Kendrick is sodomised, strangled and forced to drink chloral hydrate by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Stanton, California, USA.1993 (-) Musician Mick Ronson dies.1995 (-) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, dies at the age of 83 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.1997 (-) David Madson is shot dead as second victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 33 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.1998 (-) Murderer Arthur Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Frank McFarland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Murderer David Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

A guy cutting a large electric cable using a hacksaw, after a heavy storm destroyed a line of trees in the street.1758 (+) 4th president of the USA James Monroe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA.1770 (x) Explorer Captain James Cook lands on Botany Bay in Australia.1882 (-) Murderer George Lamson is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Adolf Hannapel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1912 (-) Gangster Jules Bonnot is riddled with bullets in a police-siege at the age of 35 in Choisy-le-Roi, Dubois Garage, France.1914 (x) 183 Die in coal-mine explosion in Eccles, USA.1919 (x) Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe, who he presumably killed in the meantime in Hannover, Germany.1924 (x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in Benwood, USA.1928 (+) Artist Yves Klein is born in Nice, France.1929 (-) British eccentric painter Edith Branson is murdered by persons unknown in Les Baux, France.1939 (-) Murderer James Bailey aka Archie Lee Short, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1940 (x) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Hoss is installed.1945 (-) Fascist leader Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 62 in Dongo, Italy.His mistress, Claretta Pettaci is also executed.1950 (+) TV-host Jay Leno is born in New Rochelle, New York, USA.1957 (+) Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.1974 (-) Stripper Johanna Nilsen is killed by a lion in a striptease-act in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.1976 (-) Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, dies of heart-failure in Eickelsborn, Germany.He was under surgery for a full castration, which was to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.1977 (x) The leaders of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for their terrorist activities in Germany.1992 (-) Artist Francis Bacon dies of a heart-attack at the age of 82 in Madrid, Spain.1992 (-) Composer Olivier Messiaen dies of heart-failure at the age of 83 in Paris, France.He was recovering from an operation.1996 (x) 29-year-old Mass-murderer Martin Bryant kills 35 people in a shooting-spree in a tourist-resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania.1999 (-) Murderer Aaron Foust is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, April 27, 2007

A concert by Suicide in Hof ter Lo in Antwerp.1822 (+) 18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, USA.1865 (x) 1547 Die in Sultana ocean liner explosion.1894 (-) Murderer Samuel Vaughan is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arkansas, USA.1926 (x) Mass Murderess Antoinette Scieri is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Paris, France.1927 (-) Mary McConnel is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1932 (+) Actress Anouk Aimée is born in Paris, France.1943 (-) Murderer Elisandro Macias is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1974 (x) 108 Die in Iljoeshin-18 crash in Leningrad, Russia.1977 (x) Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, shoots Harvey, the dog of his neighbour Sam Carr in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.1982 (-) Jean McPaul is strangled and stabbed to death by Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 40 in Bossier City, Louisiana, USA.1983 (-) Rhoda Piazza is asphyxiated and beaten to death by Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 22 in Beaumont, Texas, USA.1994 (-) Serial Killer Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is executed by Old Sparky in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.He was the first man to be convicted solely through DNA-evidence.1995 (-) Writer Willem Frederik Hermans dies at the age of 73 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1997 (-) Jeffrey Trail is beaten to death with a clawhammer as first victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 28 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.1998 (-) Mass Murderer Ronald Taylor commits suicide by jumping from a freeway overpass at the age of 46 in Los Angeles, Artesia, California, USA.He first killed his 40-year-old wife Ruthie, 24-year-old son Rick, 29-year-old sister-in-law Mylissa Campbell, 6-year-old niece Jolissa Morales and 24-year-old family friend Tomy Kang Jung.1998 (-) Writer Carlos Castaneda dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1999 (x) 16-year-old Mass Murderer Lorenzo Alvarado commits suicide by a shot in the head in Los Angeles, California, USA.He first shot his father, stepmother and 4-year-old half brother to death in the family's Hyde Park apartment.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

A loaded truck in front of the Pushkin Theatre in Vladivostok, Russia.1865 (-) Murderer John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln, is shot dead in the USA.1889 (+) Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is born in Vienna, Austria.1894 (+) Nazi leader Rudolf Hess is born in Alexandria, Egypt.1900 (-) Seismologist Charles Richter dies in USA.1910 (+) Actress Lingyu Ruan is born in Shanghai, China.1924 (-) Robert Witzel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.1933 (x) The Gestapo is founded by Nazi-leader Hermann Goering in Berlin, Germany.1937 (x) Over 200 Die in a Nazi-Germany bombing by the Luftwaffe's Condor-Legion in Guernica, Spain.1938 (+) Musician Duane Eddy is born in the USA.1942 (x) 1549 Die in coal-mine explosion in Manchuria, Honkeiko Gallery, China.1952 (x) 176 Die in US Hobson destroyer and US Wasp aircraftcarrier collision in the Atlantic.1959 (+) Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is born in Belgium.1968 (-) Graphic designer John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, dies at the age of 76 in Berlin, Germany.1974 (x) 19 Old Masters are stolen from the house of millionaire Sir Alfred Beit by the Terrorist Movement Irish Republican Army serving as ransom for money and the freedom of some of their imprisoned members in Dublin, Wicklow, Ireland.1982 (x) 112 Die in Trident crash in Guilin, China.1984 (-) Musician Count Basie dies at the age of 79 in Florida, USA.1985 (x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, is sentenced to life imprisonment in an asylum for the criminally insane in Bremen, Germany.1986 (x) An unknown number of people die and thousands are infected with radiation due to a fire in a nuclear reactor in Tsjernobyl, Russia.1989 (-) Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ihei Aoki commits suicide because of a scandal in Tokyo, Japan.1989 (-) Actress Lucille Ball dies at the age of 77 in USA.1991 (-) Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, dies at the age of 75 in Vienna, Austria.1994 (x) 264 Die in China Airlines Airbus A-300-600 crash in Nagoya Airport, China.1994 (-) Murderer Larry Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1997 (-) Murderer Kenneth Gentry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1997 (-) Double Murderer Ernest Baldree is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Serial Killer Alton Coleman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.He had standing death sentences in Indiana and Illinois resulting from a 54-day rampage of rape, abduction and murder which left eight dead.2004 (-) Writer Hubert Selby Jr., dies of tuberculosis at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.He took the Last Exit to Brooklyn.2004 (-) Murderer Song Baoliang is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Beijing, China.He was executed for paying 10.000 yuan ($1.204) to hire a killer to murder his mistress' husband.2004 (-) Murderer Li Yong is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Beijing, China.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

A local television report on the presentation of the exhibition "Extremities" in the then forthcoming Museum of Modern Art of Vladivostok.1215 (+) Saint King Louis IX is born in Poissy, France.1791 (-) Murderer Nicholas Peletier is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.It is the first ever execution by the Guillotine.1884 (+) Automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet is born in La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.1901 (-) Black Murderer Jack Ketchum is executed by hanging in Clayton, USA.On the trapdoor he shouts “I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast, boys!”, then he drops and his head is torn off due to a mistied rope.1918 (+) Musician Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia, USA.1925 (+) Artist Karel Appel is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1935 (x) A recently caught tiger-shark swimming in a public aquarium regurgitates the tattood arm of 40-year-old James Smith, victim of murderer Patrick Brady in Sydney, Coogee Beach, New South Wales, Australia.1940 (+) Actor Al Pacino is born in New York, New York, USA.1946 (-) Murderer Abraham Gold is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.1951 (-) Murderer Joseph Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1951 (-) Murderer Edward Charles Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1966 (x) 81 Army cadets Die in Lockheed Elektra crash in Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA.1972 (-) Jeanette Kamahele is presumably murdered by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Sahoma County, California, USA.1973 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on a boy in San Francisco, California, USA.1974 (-) Widow of Jim, Pam Morrison dies of a drug over-dose in the USA.1976 (-) Sniper Moses Pearson commits suicide by a shot through the head in Georgia, USA.He was closed in by the police.1980 (x) 8 US-soldiers die in a helicopter-crash in an attempt to free the American hostages in their embassy in Teheran, Iran.1988 (x) 68-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is sentenced to death for the mass-murders in the Treblinka concentration-camp in Jeruzalem, Israël.1991 (-) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kuhnen dies of aids at the age of 36 in Kassel, Germany.2000 (-) Nguyen Hiep is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Hanoi, Vietnam.In 1997 she tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin through Hanoi Airport.2001 (-) Murderer David Goff is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (x) 107 Die in a crowded train derailment in Amagasaki, Japan.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Excavations under Central Station in Antwerp.1787 (+) Criminologist Matthieu Orfila is born in Mahon, Spain.1874 (+) Scientist Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy.1875 (x) Outlaw Jesse James marries his niece, Zerelda ‘Zee’ James in the USA.1904 (+) Artist Willem De Kooning is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.1905 (+) Filmmaker Jean Vigo is born in Paris, France.1907 (-) Notorious Cannibal Alfred Packer dies in Denver, Colorado, USA.He killed a party of gold-seekers, for which he featured as a guide, and ate them.1922 (-) Murderer Colin Ross is executed by hanging in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1929 (-) Multiple Murderer Vernon Booher is executed by hanging in Alberta, Fort Saskatchewan jail, Canada.1934 (+) Actress Shirley MacLaine originally Shirley Beaty, is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1942 (+) Actress Barbara Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1950 (x) George Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, plants his first bomb in a phone booth in New York, Fifth Avenue, outside the public library, New York, USA.1964 (-) Helene Barthelemey aka Helene Paul Thompson, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 22 in London, United Kingdom.1967 (-) USSR-astronaut Vladimir Komarov dies in a crash with Soyoez I.He was the first man to die in space.1971 (+) Musician Mauro Pawlowski is born in Koersel, Limburg, Belgium.1973 (x) Serial Killer Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, gives himself up, confessing to a career of murder and mutilation in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.1974 (-) Actor Bud Abbott dies at the age of 78 in Hollywood, California, USA.1975 (x) 113 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, New York, USA.1975 (x) Terrorist Movement Rote Armee Fraktion Kommando Holger Meins attacks the German embassy and sets it on fire in Stockholm, Sweden.Four people die, including two of the terrorists.1977 (-) Tina Atkinson aka Mitra McGhee, is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 32 in Bradford, Manningham, 9 Oak Avenue, United Kingdom.1978 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes an ‘I am back’-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.1983 (-) Paula Golding is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.1984 (-) Westland New Post leader Paul Latinus commits suicide by hanging in Court-Saint-Etienne, Brabant, Belgium.1984 (x) Serial Killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is taken on a flight to locate some of his victims’ graves. 3 days later he found 7, all near the Knik River in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.1995 (x) Gilbert Murray is killed by a bomb mailed by Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Sacramento, Forest Association Office, California, USA.Kaczinski also mails more letters to the New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, containing his “Industrial Society and its Future” manifesto.1997 (-) Murderer John Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (x) Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira and 21 other Hutu-leaders are publicly executed by the firing squad on market-squares and in football-stadions in five main cities where they have been responsible for the 1994 genocides in Nyamata and in Kigali, Rwanda.1998 (-) Murderer Joseph Cannon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Murderess Lesley Gosch is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Gary Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

Monday, April 23, 2007

in the garden of evil honey the great red dragon flutters wrapped in gold i know nothing that i love you in the garden of evil baby eternal horizon in gold clothes of the sun that is always true please undress me come with me deeper blacker underground i bury your hands in the black sun i hang from cutoff shoulders in the red sun we walk the edge of this dried out land darling in the garden of evil i eat your wings1564 (+) Writer William Shakespeare is born in Startford on Avon, United Kingdom.1616 (-) Writer William Shakespeare dies of a bad cold in the United Kingdom.He drank a bit too much on a birthday-party and went home catching the cold.1791 (+) 15th president of the USA James Buchanan is born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, USA.1858 (+) Physicist Max Planck is born in Kiel, Germany.1885 (x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Maria Swanenburg is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the poisoning of over 100 people, killing at least 30, in the Netherlands.1891 (+) Composer Sergey Prokofiev is born in Sontzovka, Ukraine, Russia.1899 (+) Writer Wladimir Nabokov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.1928 (+) Actress Shirley Temple originally Black, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.1941 (x) Greece capitulates for Nazi-Germany.1961 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 11-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.1962 (-) Petra Giese is strangled and partly eaten by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Dinslaken-Bruckhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1967 (x) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, escapes from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but is recaptured a couple of days later in Missouri, USA.1969 (-) Linda Savee is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 22 in Salem, Oregon, USA.The breast he used as a paper-weight.1974 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Antwerpen Assisenhof, Antwerp, Belgium.1982 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to Professor Patrick Fisher at Pennsylvania University in Provo, Utah, USA.The package is forwarded to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.1992 (-) Murderer William ‘Billy’ White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.It took the executioner 47 minutes to find a suitable vein, White eventually helped him.1998 (-) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.1998 (x) The country’s most feared criminal, 41-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux escapes from the courthouse, where he was consulting the records for his defence, by knocking down a state trooper and running out of the building in Neufchateau, Luxemburg, Belgium.He is found about 3 hours later in a wood, where his stolen car got stuck in the mud.1999 (-) Mass Murderer David Lawrie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Artefacts on show for a 24-hour lecture by Maren Hoffmeister at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. She read her complete book "'Lustmord' als Effekt dispositiver Sexualentwürfe historischer Diskursgemeinschaften", for which I made a soundtrack.1870 (+) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is born in Simbirsk, Russia.1904 (+) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer is born in New York, New York, USA.1917 (+) Composer Yehudi Menuhin is born in New York, New York, USA.1922 (+) Musician Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona, USA.1925 (-) Murderer John Thorne is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1928 (+) TV-series-maker Aaron Spelling is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.1930 (-) Murderer William Podmore is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.1934 (-) Carter Baum is killed by Nelson aka Baby Face, at the age of 29 in Spider Lake, Colorado, USA.1937 (+) Actor Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey, USA.1942 (-) Alice Porter is crucified by Fern Donald in Pueblo Church, Colorado, USA.1960 (-) Murderer Lawrence Wade is executed by the Gas Chamber in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.1960 (-) Valeska Eder is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Tuchgartenstraße, Germany.1970 (-) H. Kecinski commits suicide by distress in Fahrdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.He also kills his wife and 7 children.1972 (x) Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, marries his third wife, Penny Sherbino in Watertown, New York, USA.1977 (-) Debra Schlesinger is stabbed to death by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat at the age of 18 in Leeds, United Kingdom.1980 (x) 313 Die in Don Juan shipwreck in Manila, Filippines.1983 (-) Murderer John Evans is executed by Old Sparky in Alabama, USA.After the first jolt of electricity, sparks and flames erupted from the electrode attached to his leg. The electrode then burst from the strap holding it in place and caught on fire. Smoke and sparks came out from under the hood. Two physicians entered the chamber and found a heartbeat. The electrode was reattached to his leg. More smoke and burning flesh. Again doctors found a heartbeat. Ignoring the pleas of Evan's lawyer, Russ Canan, a third jolt was applied. The execution took 14 minutes and left Evan's body charred and smoldering.1986 (-) Black Vietnam-veteran and murderer David Funchess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Jose Villafuerte is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Juan Chavez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

The view down outside the window of Artetage Director Alexander Gorodny's cramped living barracks in Vladivostok.1849 (-) Murderer James Rush aka The Killer in the Fog, is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.1908 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Speichert is born in Hannover, Germany.1910 (-) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dies of angina pectoris at the age of 75.1915 (+) Actor Anthony Quinn is born in Chihuahua, Mexico.1918 (-) War pilot Manfred Von Richtenhofen aka The Red Baron, is shot in the air at the age of 26.1926 (+) Queen of England Elizabeth II is born in the United Kingdom.1930 (+) Artist Dieter Roth is born in Hannover, Germany.1930 (x) 322 convicts Die in cell-block fire in State Penitentiary, Ohio, USA.1947 (+) Musician Iggy Pop originally James Newell Osterberg Jr., is born in Muskegon, Michigan, USA.1949 (-) Murderer Harry Lewis is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1951 (+) Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.1969 (-) Sharon Wood is attacked by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 24 in Portland, Oregon, USA.She survived.1971 (-) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, dies at the age of 64 in Haiti.1973 (-) Clarnell Strandberg-Kemper is shot dead and decapitated by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Santa Cruz, California, USA.He also threw darts at his mother’s head and trashed her vocal cords because she always yelled at him.1979 (-) Gudrun Thome is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 15 in Rot, Heidelberg, Germany.1990 (-) Murderer Jerome Butler is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1992 (-) Double murderer Robert Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.It was the first execution after a 25-year stay in California. His last words were "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper".1997 (-) Murderer Benjamin Boyle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, April 20, 2007

A 'container shop' near the Chinese market in Vladivostok, Russia.1831 (-) Mass-Murderess Margaretha Timm is executed in Germany.She killed over 15 relatives.1889 (+) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau, Gasthof zum Pommer, Germany.1893 (+) Artist Juan Mirò is born in Barcelona, Spain.1893 (+) Actor and filmmaker Harold Lloyd is born in the USA.1907 (x) Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is court-martialed for stealing government-property and is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in the USA.1908 (+) Musician Lionel Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.1917 (-) Explorer Percy Fawcett vanishes into the Matto Grossi Jungle, probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians in Brazil.1917 (-) Andrée Babelay is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Gambais, France.1940 (+) Writer Jan ‘I’ Cremer is born in Enschede, the Netherlands.1942 (+) Serial Killer Hans Van Zon is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1949 (+) Actress Jessica Lange is born in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA.1953 (+) Musician James Siegfried aka James White aka James Chance, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1958 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, marries Elisabeth ‘Betty’ Baumgard in Elkton, Maryland, USA.1965 (x) Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, marries 21-year-old Frances Shea in London, United Kingdom.1965 (x) Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for burglary in Walla Walla, Washington, USA.1967 (x) 126 Die in Swissair Airliner crash in Nicosia, Cyprus.1968 (x) 123 Die in SuidAfrikaanse Lugdiens Boeing 707 crash in Windhoek, South Africa.1970 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a diagram how to blow up a schoolbus to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.1972 (-) Jimmy Wallace is stabbed and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 10 in New York, West Side, New York, USA.He survived, the penis was found the next day while some kids were playing with it.1978 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the St. Paul mental hospital in Minneapolis, USA.1984 (-) Caecili Hidde is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Neu Köln, Germany.1986 (x) Over 1000 Die in Ekhlas Star ferry shipwreck in Dacca, Dhaleswhari River, Bangladesh.1991 (-) Musician with The Small Faces Steve Marriott dies in a fire at his house at the age of 44 in Essex, United Kingdom.1992 (-) Actor Benny Hill originally Alfie Hill, is found dead in his house at the age of 67 in London, United Kingdom.1995 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Sacramento Forest Association Office in Oakland, California, USA.He also mails letters to the New York Times, Professor David Gelernter at Yale University, Research director of New England Biolabs Richard J. Roberts and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s biology department Phillip A. Sharp.1998 (-) Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard dies of pneumonia and lungcancer at the age of 73 in France.1999 (-) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is executed by the Firing Squad in Bejing, China.2005 (-) Murderer Douglas Roberts is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Director of the Museum of Modern Art Artetage, Alexander Gorodny, wearing an artwork helmet at Arka Gallery in Vladivostok.1689 (-) Queen of Sweden Christina dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 63 in Stockholm, Sweden.1878 (-) Murderer Samu Steenburgh is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, USA.1882 (-) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, dies of malaria at the age of 36 in Italy.He caught the disease during the battle of Missolonghi.1882 (-) Naturalist Charles Darwin dies of a heart-attack at the age of 73 in Down House, Kent, United Kingdom.1903 (+) FBI-agent Elliot Ness aka The Untouchable, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1906 (-) Physicist Pierre Curie dies at the age of 67 in Paris, France.1928 (-) Murderer Charles Birger is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Illinois, USA.1933 (+) Actress Jayne Mansfield originally Vera Jane Palmer, is born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.1942 (+) Artist Bas Ader is born in Winschoten, the Netherlands.1949 (+) Actress and fashion designer Paloma Picasso is born in Valleuris, France.1963 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 9-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.1967 (-) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer dies of pneumonia at the age of 91 in Rhondorf, Germany.1970 (-) Designer Robert Salem is mutilated and decapitated by an unidentified Zodiac copycat-killer at the age of 40 in San Francisco, 754 Stevenson St., California, USA.1977 (x) Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails a second threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his dog Harvey in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.1989 (-) Writer Daphne Du Maurier dies at the age of 82 in Cornwall, United Kingdom.1993 (x) Over 80 members of the Branch-Davidians sect, including their 33-year-old Religious Leader David Koresh die in a suicide-pact by poisoning and gunfire after their farm has been besieged by the FBI for 51 days in Waco, Texas, USA.1995 (x) 162 die in a bomb-attack on the Murrah Government-building by 27-year-old Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, as an eventual revenge for the massacre in Waco, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.2000 (-) Rapist and murderer Robert Coe is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in West Virginia, USA.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The library in transition of FESTU University of the Far East in Vladivostok.1480 (+) Lucrezia Borghia is born in Rome, Italy.1857 (+) Lawyer Clarence Darrow is born in the USA.1909 (x) Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is declared Saint in Rome, St. Peters Cathedral, Italy.1912 (-) Masonic Murderer Henry Seddon is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1924 (x) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, marries Dr. William C. Judd in Phoenix, Free Methodist Church, Arizona, USA.1938 (x) The headless body of a woman is found, the second victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1941 (-) Prime-minister Korysis commits suicide by fear of collaboration with the Nazis in Athens, Greece.1947 (+) Mass-murderer Herbert Mullin is born in Salinas, Monterey County, California, USA.1947 (-) Ex-president of Slowakia Jozef Tiso is executed by the Firing Squad in Czechoslowakia.1947 (x) Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is arrested in Niedersachsen, Germany.1947 (+) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.1955 (-) Scientist Albert Einstein dies of an arterial rupture at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.1957 (-) Richard Horan is shot dead by Francis Kolakowski at the age of 35 in Suffield, Connecticut, USA.1974 (x) Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is found guilty of the murder of Jerry Billings in Minnesota, USA.1974 (x) Attorney Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Terrorist Movement Red Brigades in Italy.1985 (-) Murderous rapist James Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in the USA.1986 (-) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Dassault dies at the age of 94 in France.1988 (x) The body of 191st Pope Cœlestinus V (died in 1300) is stolen from the Santa Maria di Colemaggio in L’Aquila and re-buried by persons unknown on the cemetary of Amatrice in Italy.2002 (-) Murderer Gerald Casey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

A train-attendant of the Trans-Siberian Express in end-station Vladivostok, Russia.1533 (+) Willem De Zwijger is born in Delft, Dillenburg, The Netherlands.1695 (-) Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, dies of the plague at the age of 46 in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.1885 (-) Murderer Carmine Santore is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maine, USA.1894 (+) USSR-leader Nikita Krushchev is born in Kalikovna, Ukraine, Russia.1915 (+) Musician Billie Holiday aka Lady Day, originally Eleonor Gogh McKay, is born in the USA.1915 (-) Black meat-thief Caesar Sheffield is lynched by shooting in Valdosta, Georgia, USA.1918 (+) Actor William Holden originally William Beedle, is born in the USA.1924 (-) Wilhelm Apel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.1930 (-) Murderer Colin Campbell is executed by Old Sparky in New Jersey, USA.1933 (+) Serial Killer Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, is born in Hindenburg, Ober-Schlesiën, Germany.1941 (x) Yugoslavia capitulates for Nazi-Germany.1960 (-) Musician Eddie Cochran dies in a car crash at the age of 21 in the USA.1974 (-) Susan Rancourt is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 18 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA.1975 (-) Lilian Dresch is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 28 in Neckarau, Germany.She survived.1977 (-) Alexander Esau is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.1983 (-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Sunset over the beach in Vladivostok.1828 (-) Artist Francisco Goya dies of Vogt-Koyanagi-Syndrome.This disease caused an infection of the retina with consequent blurred vision and hallucinations.1841 (-) Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Jersey.1867 (+) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright is born in Melville, Indiana, USA.1869 (+) Murderess Jeanne Japy-Steinheil is born in Beaucourt, France.1881 (-) Murderer Alan Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.1889 (+) Actor and filmmaker Charles Chaplin is born in London, Brixton, United Kingdom.1896 (+) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, is born in Moinesti, Romania.1907 (-) Auguste Bavouzet is strangled by Jeanne Weber at the age of 9 in Villedieu, France.1920 (-) Murderer Simplico Torrez is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1921 (+) Actor Peter Ustinov is born in London, United Kingdom.1922 (+) Writer Kingsley Amis is born in the USA.1924 (+) Composer Henry Mancini is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1926 (-) Murderer Archie Cody is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.1936 (-) Murderess Dorothea Waddingham aka The Murderous Nurse, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, United Kingdom.1937 (-) Wimberly Baker is shot dead by Robert Suhay at the age of 27 in Topeka, post office, Kansas, USA.1937 (-) Murderer Fred Hart is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.1946 (-) Automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide by hanging due to depression at the age of 62 in Slidell, Louisiana, USA.1947 (-) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Hoss is executed by hanging in Auschwitz, Poland.1964 (x) Astronaut Geraldine Mock is the first woman to fly around the world in a spacecraft.1969 (-) Dawn Basom is raped, tortured and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 13 in Ann Arbor, Superior Township, Michigan, USA.1981 (-) Colleen Daignault is abducted, tortured and murdered by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Surrey, British Columbia, USA.1986 (-) Murderer Jeffrey Barney is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1989 (-) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, dies of aids at the age of 26 in Paris, Prison de Fresnes, France.1990 (-) Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, dies of a kidney and stomach-disease at the age of 84 in New York, New York, USA.1990 (x) Over 100 Die in train fire in Patna, India.1992 (-) Kristen French is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist, at the age of 16 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.1997 (-) Artist and writer Roland Topor dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris, France.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

A guard in front of the Lenin Mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow at approximately se7en in the morning.1452 (+) Artist Leonardo Da Vinci is born in Italy.1721 (+) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, is born in United Kingdom.1764 (-) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour dies of pneumonia at the age of 43.1889 (-) Father Damiaan dies of leprosy at the age of 49 in Molokai, Hawaï.1904 (+) Artist Jean Gros is born in Khorkom, Van, Turkey.1912 (x) 1503 Die in Titanic steamer shipwreck in Newfoundland.It collided with an iceberg.1920 (x) The Slater and Morril Shoe Company is robbed of 16.000 $, and Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti will be arrested on vague accusations in South Braintree, Massachussets, USA.1924 (-) Hermann Bock is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 22 in Hannover, Germany.1925 (-) Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is executed by the Guillotine in Hannover, Celler Straße Prison, Germany.1938 (+) Actress Claudia Cardinale is born in Italy.1942 (-) Writer Robert Von Musil aka The Man Without Qualities, dies at the age of 62 in Genève, Switzerland.1945 (x) The concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen is liberated in Germany.1947 (x) Over 500 Die in Grand Camp freighter explosion in Texas City, Texas, USA.Many people died in the subsequent fire that raged through the city.1951 (x) Mabel Everson dies at the age of 69. On the night of the funeral, Serial Killer Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, robbed her grave and took parts of her body home to make his grisly artefacts in Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA.1955 (-) Murderer Jackson Howard is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1957 (x) Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries Mary Catherine Castillo in Los Angeles, California, USA.1972 (-) IRA-Leader Joseph McCann is shot dead at the age of 25 in Ireland.1975 (-) Melanie Coolley is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Nederland, Colorado, USA.1980 (-) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.1984 (-) Actor and comedian Tommy Cooper has a fatal heart-attack in the midst of a live TV-show at the age of 62 in London, Her Majesty’s Theatre, United Kingdom.1984 (x) Mass-Murderer Christopher Thomas kills 10 people, including 8 children, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1986 (-) Murderer Daniel Thompson is executed by Old Sparky in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.1986 (-) Writer and thief Jean Genet dies of throat-cancer at the age of 75 in Paris, France.1988 (-) Murderer Earl Clanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1989 (x) 96 Die in soccer-riot during the game Liverpool-Nottingham Forest in Sheffield, Hillsborough Stadium, United Kingdom.1990 (x) 87 Die in mass poisoning in Uttar Pradesh, India.They had been eating poisoned food on the occasion of an engagement-banquet.1997 (x) Over 250 Die in encampment fire in Mekka, Camp-Mama, Saudi Arabia.1998 (-) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 73 in Anlow Veng, Thailand.2001 (-) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffrey Hyman, dies of cancer at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Cuts in my chest to cut up with other images to form the work "BloodLine" in Borgerhout, Belgium.1723 (+) Composer John Wainwright is born in Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom.1759 (-) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in London, United Kingdom.1865 (-) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln is shot dead by John Wilkes Booth at the age of 56 in the USA.1878 (+) Flemish Nationalist Leader Dr. August Borms is born in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium.1904 (+) Actor John Gielgud is born in London, United Kingdom.1907 (+) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, is born.1915 (-) Composer Alexander Skrjabin dies at the age of 44 in Moscow, Russia.His last words were "This means the end. What a catastrophe!" He claimed that he was God, and eventually acknowledged that he was inspired by Satan. Imitating Christ he was an anti-christ filled with Satan, controlled by Satan and ultimately destroyed by Satan.1924 (-) Madge Oberholtzer commits suicide by mercury bichloride-poisoning at the age of 25 in Hamilton, Indiana, USA.On march 15th she was savagely raped by The Grand Dragon of the Realm of the Indiana Ku-Klux-Klan, David Curtis Stephenson.1925 (+) Actor Rod Steiger is born in West Hampton, New York, USA.1926 (-) Murderer Andries Van Niekerk is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.1926 (-) Murderer Edward Markus is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.1930 (-) Futurist writer Vladimir Mayakovski commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 36 in Moscow, Russia.An unfinished poem in his suicide note read, in part: "The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts."1935 (+) Actress Loretta Lynn is born in the USA.1944 (x) The first transport of jews - from Athens, Greece - arrives in Auschwitz, Poland.1953 (x) 53 Die in stampede in Caracas, Venezuela.They ran due to panic in a supposed fire, while the whole scenario was set up by a pick-pocket.1965 (-) Mass-murderer Richard Hickock aka In Cold Blood, is executed by hanging in Lansing, Kansas, USA.1965 (-) Mass-Murderer Perry Smith is executed by hanging in Lansing, Kansas, USA.1972 (x) Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, marries Alice Johnson in Seattle, Washington, USA.1974 (-) Terry White is shot dead by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 15 in Fillmore, California, USA.1975 (x) 21-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, falls in a coma, overdosed on alcohol and barbiturates in the USA.1986 (-) Writer Simone De Beauvoir dies at the age of 78.1989 (x) 28-year-old Mass-Murderer Ramon Salcido kills his wife and two daughters, his mother-in-law and her two daughters and his boss in a shooting-rage over a family-disagreement in Hot Springs, Boyes, California, USA.1992 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.1993 (-) Mass Murderer James Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.When he was arrested, the police found that he had retained the bullet that passed through the head of one of his victims as a souvenir.1996 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is arrested in the house of his girlfriend Anna Kazakh, a 39-year-old hairdresser, in Yavoriv, Ukraïne, Russia.1997 (-) Murderer Billy Woods is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, April 13, 2007

My diggin' shovel on the top balcony of Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8, the house next to where Gordon Matta-Clark's "Office Baroque" once stood. Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs I performed "The Red Dragon" there today. I stood on the edge of the balcony ramp, dressed in a shiny red cape, rubber boots, blindfolded with my diggin' shovel in my hands. While I counted from 1 till 1978, Sofie read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had, apart from casual passers-by below, one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.1743 (+) 3rd president of the USA Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, USA.1860 (+) Artist James Ensor is born in Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium.1885 (+) Philosopher Gyorgy Von Lukacs is born in Budapest, Hungary.1900 (+) Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Bordeaux, France.1901 (+) Psychoanalist Jacques Lacan is born in Paris, France.1906 (+) Writer Samuel Beckett is born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland.1917 (-) Murderer Chester Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.1920 (-) Murderer Frederick Holt is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.1923 (-) Murderer Paul Hadley aka W.M. Estaver, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1930 (-) Frau Hau is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1931 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1943 (-) Artist Oskar Schlemmer dies in Baden-Baden, Germany.1945 (-) Murderer U. Holley is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.He had been drinking, entered a saloon in Globe to purchase more beer, and was told that negroes were not served. Whereupon he went home and embarked on a shooting spree, killing one and injuring two.1947 (-) Herr Bennen is hacked to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 52 in Niedersachsen, Germany.1956 (-) Artist Emil Nolde dies at the age of 88 in Seebull, Germany.1961 (-) Wife-murderer John Bennet is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in the USA.1967 (-) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle dies of a heart-attack at the age of 44 in Nicaragua.1982 (x) ‘Whose Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by an unidentified 29-year-old student in Berlin, NationalGalerie, Germany.1983 (-) Joe Rapini is shot dead by Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 42 in Rochester, Greece, New York, USA.1984 (-) Serial Killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with state-trooper Chuck Ellison in Colebrook, Vic’s Getty Oil-Station, Connecticut, USA.1999 (x) Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison today for the videotaped death of a Lou Gehrig's disease patient in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.1999 (-) Serial Killer Marion Pruett aka The Mad-Dog Killer, is executed by lethal injection in Varner, Arkansas, USA.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

A digging spade in the underground of Antwerp's Central Station where we made a large installation with computer projections and live music during 2 days for an audience of 75.000 people.1715 (-) Murderer Jeremiah Meacham is executed by hanging in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.1869 (+) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is born in Paris XIX, France.1885 (+) Artist Robert Delaunay is born in Paris, France.1895 (-) Minnie Williams is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, in San Francisco, Library of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, California, USA.1921 (x) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, United Kingdom.1932 (+) Musician Herbert Khaury aka Tiny Tim, is born in New York, New York, USA.1933 (+) Actor Montserrat Caballe is born in Barcelona, Spain.1940 (+) Musician Herbie Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1945 (-) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Warm Springs, Colorado, USA.1946 (-) Flemish Nationalist Leader Dr. August Borms is executed by the Firing Squad in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.1948 (+) Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1950 (+) Musician David Cassidy is born in New York, New York, USA.1961 (x) 27-year-old The first man in space, Youri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly around the world in a space-craft.1967 (-) Cop Killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin, California, USA.He was the first man to be executed under Governor Ronald Reagan and the last man to be executed in California, until the Supreme Court re-installed the death-penalty in 1992.1977 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to his Cell One in the E-Block of Lakeland Annex in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.1993 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sergej Rjachowsky aka The Hippopotamus, is arrested on suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old in Moscow, Russia.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

An inspirational shop in Offerandestraat in Antwerpen.1890 (-) Joseph Carey Merrick aka The Elephant Man, dies of of a dislocation of the vertebrae of the neck at the age of 29 in London, The London Hospital, United Kingdom.1930 (+) Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey is born.1936 (-) Composer Mitya Stillman dies at the age of 44.1945 (x) Buchenwald-KZ is liberated by the American Armed Forces in Germany.1947 (-) Double murderess Louise Peete is executed by the Gas Chamber in San Quentin, California, USA.She was the second woman to be executed in the Gas Chamber.1958 (-) Murderer John McMiller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Louisiana, USA.1968 (x) Student-leader Rudi Dutschke is attacked by Josef Bachman, who got inspired by the murder of Martin Luther King in Germany.1975 (-) Musician Josephine Baker dies at the age of 68.1977 (-) Writer Jacques Prévert dies at the age of 77 in Omonville-la-Petite, France.1985 (-) Politician Enver Hoxha dies of heart-failure at the age of 76 in Albania.1989 (x) 12 victims of the Satanic Cult Palo Mayombe are found tortured and hacked to death on a ranch in Matamaros, Mexico.Several days later, 5 members of the cult are captured.2002 (-) Murderer William Burns is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Mauro and Dennis acting while AMVK is filming for her movie "Adam and Eve in Paradise", recorded for a live audience in her studio in Antwerpen.1829 (+) Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth is born in the United Kingdom.1917 (x) 125 Die in munitions-plant explosion in Chester, USA.1919 (-) Revolutionary Leader Emiliano Zapato is shot dead by Colonel Jesus Guajardo in Cuatla Morelos, Mexico.1929 (+) Actor Max Von Sydow is born in Lund, Sweden.1932 (+) Actor Omar Sharif originally Michael Shalhoub, is born in Alexandria, Egypt.1941 (+) Writer Paul Theroux is born in Medford, Massachussets, USA.1959 (-) Murderer Leonard Shockley is executed by Old Sparky in Maryland, USA.1962 (-) Musician Stu Sutcliffe aka The Fifth Beatle, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 21 in Hamburg, Germany.1963 (x) 129 Die in US Tresher submarine shipwreck in the North Atlantic.1966 (-) Writer Evelyn Waugh dies at the age of 63 in Combe Florey, United Kingdom.1966 (-) King of the Gypsies Christian Johannes Modeste dies at the age of 52.1966 (-) Mary Pierce is murdered by Richard Speck aka Born To Raise Hell, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1972 (-) Fiat-Director Oberdan Sallustro is assassinated by the Revolutionary People’s Army at the age of 56 in Argentina.1973 (x) 104 Shopping housewives Die in British Charter crash in Basel, Switzerland.1977 (x) Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails a threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his dog Harvey in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.1979 (-) Composer Nini Rota dies at the age of 68.1980 (-) Steven Wood is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 16 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1984 (-) Dawnette Wilt is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 16 in Merrilville, Southlake Shopping Mall, Indiana, USA.After 3 days she is found alive.1997 (-) Lillian Philippe is beaten and stabbed to death as third victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 71 in Gonzales, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Jose Sr. Santellan is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, April 9, 2007

Support act "Bloated Ego and the Complements" for Club Moral at 't Ol van Pluto in Horebeke.1483 (-) King of England Edward IV dies at the age of 44 in United Kingdom.1744 (-) Grace Pett dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ipswich, St. Clement, United Kingdom.1821 (+) Writer Charles Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, is born in Paris, France.1830 (+) Photographer Edward Muybridge is born in Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom.1908 (+) Artist Victor Vasarely is born in Pecs, Hungary.1912 (-) Black Tom Miles is lynched for writing insulting letters to a white girl in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.1926 (+) Playboy-pioneer Hugh Hefner is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1933 (+) Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.1940 (x) Nazi-Germany attacks Norway.1940 (x) Denmark capitulates for Nazi-Germany.1945 (x) 360 Die in USS Liberty steamer explosion in Bari, Italy.1959 (-) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies at the age of 91 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.1964 (-) Irene Lockwood aka Sandra Russel, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 26 in London, United Kingdom.1986 (-) Eileen Emms is raped and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 78 in London, Wandsworth, West Hill Road, United Kingdom.1998 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Alfred Gaynor is arrested in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Morning has broken in Borgerhout, Belgium.1364 (-) King Jean II aka le Bon, dies at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.He was held as an honoured prisoner at the Savoy Palace.1672 (-) Quaker Thomas Lancaster is executed by hanging in Hawkshead, Cumbria, United Kingdom.He poisoned his family of 6.1893 (+) Actress Mary Pickford originally Gladys Smith, is born.1898 (+) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is born in Halifax, Black Boy House, United Kingdom.1911 (x) 128 Die in coal-mine explosion in Littleton, USA.1929 (+) Musician and actor Jacques Brel is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1930 (-) Homosexual Matricider Sidney Fox is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.1938 (x) An unidentified headless woman is found as first victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1944 (-) Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is executed by lethal injection in Vienna, Austria.He was first extensively experimented upon by the SS.1949 (-) Murderer Jessie Carroll is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1950 (-) Choreographer Vaslav Nijinski dies at the age of 61 in London, United Kingdom.1961 (x) Over 200 Die in Dara shipwreck in the Persian Gulf.1963 (+) Musician and son of Beatle John, Julian Lennon is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1972 (-) Ruthless Ruler Sheik Abeid Karume is assassinated by persons unknown in Zanzibar.1973 (-) Artist Pablo Picasso dies at the age of 91 in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.1981 (-) War Leader Omar Bradley dies at the age of 88.He led the Allied Forces to the beaches of Normandy.1983 (-) Gustavo Herrera is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake County, Illinois, USA.In the course of the fight, Eyler’s hand is badly cut between the thumb and forefinger.1986 (-) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, commits suicide by jumping out of the 7th storey window of the Sun Music Agency building at the age of 18 in Tokio, Japan.Over 30 young fans will follow her into death in the next days.1994 (-) Musician Kurt Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Seattle, Lake Washington, Washington, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Don Hawkins is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

A performance by Merlin Spie in Antwerpen.30 (-) Jesus Christ is executed by crucification at the age of 30.1699 (+) Composer Andreas Praelisauer is born in Corsini, Italy.1903 (-) Mass-Poisoner Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.On the scaffold he confessed to being Jack the Ripper.1915 (+) Musician Billie Holiday aka Lady Day, originally Eleonor Gogh McKay, is born in the USA.1920 (+) Musician Ravi Shankar is born in Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India.1926 (x) Fascist leader Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce, is hit in the nose by a bullet, fired by an unidentified Irish woman in Rome, Italy.1939 (+) Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.1939 (+) TV-host David Frost is born in Tenterden, United Kingdom.1947 (-) Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 83 in Greenfield, Illinois, USA.1947 (+) Serial Killer Herbert Baumeister is born in Westfield, Indiana, USA.1968 (-) Formula-1 racer Jim Clark crashes into a tree in what was to be his last race before retiring on his sheep-farm at the age of 32 in Hockenheim, Germany.1971 (x) President Richard Nixon orders the release from prison of American Hero and Mass-murderer William Caley who was serving a life-term for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in the USA.1972 (-) Isobel Watson is attacked by Zodiac at the age of 33 in San Francisco, Pine Hill, California, USA.She survived.1977 (-) Attorney-General Siegfried Buback is shot dead by the Ulrike Meinhof Aktion Gruppe at the age of 57 in Karlsruhe, Germany.1979 (-) Ex-prime Minister of Persia Abbas Hoveida is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 60 in Iran.1991 (-) Errol Lindsey is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.1997 (-) Mass Murderer Mohammed Nazari is executed by the Firing Squad in San’a, Yemen.As crowds yelled "God is greatest", the vengeful father who killed six people was executed with a single bullet from a sharpshooter in front of the two schools were the rampage took place. His corpse was then nailed to a cross and will be displayed in public for three days.

Friday, April 6, 2007

"Dan Flavin is descending steps into Hell" in my "Diggin' for Gordon" project somewhere in Antwerpen.1199 (-) Richard The Lionheart is fatally wounded by a crossbow-shot at the age of 42 in the United Kingdom.1854 (+) Magician Harry Houdini originally Erich Weiss, is born in the USA.1892 (+) Airplane designer Donald Douglas is born in the USA.1909 (x) Explorer Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the Northpole.1917 (x) The United States declare war to Germany.1924 (-) Alfred Hogrefe is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.1944 (+) Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, is born in Saigon, Vietnam.1945 (+) Musician Bob Marley is born in Jamaica.1945 (-) Murderer Lee Smith is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 62 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1946 (-) Murderer Patrick Carraher is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Glasgow, Barlinnie Prison, United Kingdom.1950 (x) 108 Die in train derailment in Tangua, Brazil.It drove off a viaduct.1953 (x) Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, attempts to shoot Major-General Edwin Walker in the USA.1970 (-) Murderer of his wife and daughter Sam Sheppard commits suicide by an overdose of drugs and alcohol at the age of 47 in the USA.1970 (-) German ambassador Karl Von Spreti is murdered after being kidnapped at the age of 62 in Guatemala.1971 (-) Composer Igor Strawinsky dies at the age of 88 in New York, New York, USA.1973 (x) After an occupation of 37 days, Wounded Knee is taken over by United States Government Forces.1975 (-) Denise Olverson is abducted by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 25 in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA.She is never found again.1976 (-) Darrel Sampson is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1990 (x) 31-year-old P.G. attacks Rembrandt’s ‘Nightwatch’ with sulphuric acid in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.1992 (-) SF-writer Isaac Asimov dies of heart-failure at the age of 72 in New York, New York, USA.1992 (-) Double murderer Donald Harding is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 43 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.It was the first execution in 29 years in Arizona, and the last one in the Gas Chamber.1995 (-) Murderer Noble Mays is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Musician Wendy O. Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 48 in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.1999 (x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Gary Beach is arrested after the police found five decomposed bodies in his house in Kansas City, Montana, USA.

Thursday, April 5, 2007

A small metal drum set I made for Aarich Jespers' 30th birthday. He's a drummer in Zita Swoon and other bands.1900 (+) Actor Spencer Tracy is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1908 (+) Conductor Herbert Von Karajan is born in Salzburg, Austria.1908 (+) Actress Bette Davis is born in Lowell, Massachussets, USA.1916 (+) Actor Gregory Peck is born in La Jolla, California, USA.1920 (+) Writer Arthur Hailey is born in Luton, United Kingdom.1926 (+) Filmmaker Roger Corman is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.1968 (x) Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ennslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein are arrested for an arson-attack, 3 days before in Berlin, Germany.1971 (x) American Hero and Mass-murderer William Caley is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in the USA.1975 (-) Statesman Chang Kai-Shek dies at the age of 87 in Taiwan.1976 (-) Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes dies at the age of 70 in his private aircraft near Houston, Texas, USA.1983 (x) 27-year-old Mass-Murderer Cevdet Yilmaz shoots 6 people because he is not accepted as a ‘Dutchman’ after his official naturalisation in Delft, ‘t Koetsiertje, the Netherlands.1984 (-) Child-Murderer Freddie Goode is executed in the USA.He faced the jury with the words “Having sex with children is the way it should be done”.1989 (-) Joris Viville is raped, strangled and mutilated by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 10 in Port Grimaud, France.1992 (x) Over 100 Die in diamond-mine cave-in in Nyeya, Sierra Leone.1997 (-) Writer Allen Ginsberg dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in New York, New York, USA.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Starting the wooden construction for my "Diggin' for Gordon" project somewhere in Antwerpen.1846 (+) Writer Comte Isidore Ducasse De Lautréamont is born in Montevideo, Uruguay.1914 (+) Writer Marguerite Duras is born in Giadinh, Indochina.1915 (+) Musician Muddy Waters is born in the USA.1918 (-) An unidentified woman is murdered by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Gambais, France.1929 (-) Autombile designer Karl Friedrich Benz dies at the age of 64 in Ladenburg, Germany.1932 (+) Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovski is born in Zavrashje, Russia.1932 (+) Actor Anthony Perkins aka Norman Bates, is born in New York, New York, USA.1941 (-) Child-Murderer Samuel Morgan is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Walton Gaol, United Kingdom.1943 (+) Murderer Peter Anthony Allen is born in Wallasey, Cheshire, United Kingdom.1946 (x) Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is sentenced to death in Paris, France.1962 (-) Murderer James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, is executed by hanging in Bedford Prison, United Kingdom.1967 (x) A group of 80 marines clears the main hall of the Central Station of ‘thugs’ and assembled youngsters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1968 (-) Martin Luther King jr., is shot dead by James Earl Ray at the age of 39 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1970 (x) Terrorist Andreas Baader is arrested in Berlin, Germany.1973 (x) 13-year-old Murderer and son of Joseph Kallinger, The Shoemaker, Joey Kallinger is arrested and charged with vandalism, trespassing and conspiracy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1975 (x) 155 War-orphans Die in US Airforce D-5A Galaxy crash in Saigon, Tan Sonnhut Airport, Vietnam.1979 (-) Ex-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Boettho is executed by hanging in Islamabad, Pakistan.1979 (-) Josephine Whitaker is beaten to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 19 in Halifax, Saville Park, United Kingdom.1984 (-) Tina Risico is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 16 in Del Ammo Shopping Center, California, USA.After 9 days of torture she was left for dead, but survived.1988 (-) Unidentified woman is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 25 in Krasny Sulin, Russia.1994 (-) Murderer Richard Beavers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Nothing to take pictures of on this day in history.1863 (+) Architect Henry Van De Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1882 (-) Outlaw Jesse James is ‘accidently’ shot in the head by Bob Ford at the age of 34 in the USA.1888 (-) Emma Smith is stabbed to death by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.1895 (-) Blanche Lamont is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, at the age of 21 in San Francisco, in the clocktower of the Emmanuel Baptist church, California, USA.1897 (-) Composer Johannes Brahms dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 64 in Vienna, Austria.1919 (-) Black ex-soldier William Little is lynched by battering because he continued to wear his uniform in Blakely, Georgia, USA.1924 (+) Actor Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.1924 (+) Actress Doris Day originally Doris Von Kappelhoff, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.1929 (-) Frau Flake is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.She survived.1936 (-) Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 24 in Trenton State Prison, New Jersey, USA.1941 (-) Prime-minister of Hungary Pal Teleki commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 61 in Budapest, Hungary.He wanted to avoid collaboration with the Nazis.1950 (-) Composer Kurt Weill dies of a heart-attack at the age of 50 in New York, New York, USA.1955 (x) Over 300 Die in train derailment in Guadalajaro, Mexico.It crashed into a canyon.1961 (+) Actor Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1974 (x) Patty Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, joins the Symbionese Freedom Army in California, USA.1975 (x) Mass-murderer James Ruppert kills 11 members of his family in order to obtain the family fortune in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.1991 (-) Writer Graham Greene dies of a blood-disease at the age of 86 in Vevey, Switzerland.1997 (-) Triple Murderer David Spence is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Artist Wolf Vostell dies of a heart-attack in Germany.2001 (-) Murderer Jason Massey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.